Abstract

RABELO, Fabiano Chagas; MARTINS, Karla Patrícia Holanda  and  DANZIATO, Leonardo José Barreira. The subject in science, fantastic literature, and psychoanalysis. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.1, pp.31-62. ISSN 0101-4838.

This work discusses the relationship between modern science, fantastic literature, and psychoanalysis, taking the former as a precondition for the existence of the latter two. It is questioned which historical and epistemic elements inherited from science are present both in fantastic literature and in psychoanalysis, to then situate the specificity of each of these. The Lacanian conceptions of subject and discourse are adopted as a category of analysis, thus establishing a connection between the scientific procedure and the discourse of hysteria. The idiosyncrasies of fantastic literature, which is situated in relation to other genres or literary modalities, as defined by Todorov, namely, the strange and the magical, are highlighted. One discusses the Todorov's thesis that predicts the disappearance of the fantastic literature in the second half of the 20th century due to the influence of psychoanalysis, which would have made it superfluous. Unlike this author, it is argued that one of the main obstacles to the development of fantastic literature today is not the competition of psychoanalysis, but the influence of a scientificist worldview linked to the capitalist's discourse. In this sense, it is proposed that both psychoanalysis and fantastic literature are ways of providing the expression of the subject, which is elidited in scientificism. It is, therefore, a qualitative, bibliographical, conceptual, essayistic research, which is based on the contribution of psychoanalysts and literary critics, in addition to epistemologists and historians of science in order to question the place, the relevance and the challenges of psychoanalysis today, focusing on its relationship with science and fantastic literature.

Keywords : Science; psychoanalysis; fantastic literature; subject; hysteria discourse.

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